Healthy Nutella (Recipe)
ELLA WOODWARD
Using just 3 ingredients, Deliciously Ella lets us in on her Nutella secret! So simple to make & the perfect replacement to sugar-laden, store-bought Nutella.
Ingredients
- 2 cups of hazelnuts
- 1/2 a cup of water
- 1/2 a cup of maple syrup
- 3 tablespoons of raw cacao powder
Method
1. Bake the hazelnuts at 180C for about ten minutes, then take them out of the oven and allow them to cool.
2. Once cool place them in a food processor and blend for about ten minutes, until they totally break down.
3. Then add the maple syrup and cacao and blend again, before gradually pouring in the water – it’s important that the first three are properly mixed before you add the water though as you may not need it all.
Ella Woodward, author of Deliciously Ella , wants you to feel good about healthy food, without being 'smug'! The idea of Deliciously Ella developed last year after Ella was diagnosed with a relatively unknown autoimmune disease, Postural Tachycardia Syndrome (POTs). At that point she faced some pretty interesting challenges. Her entire nervous system had shut down, to the point that she was unable to walk between her bedroom and the kitchen without blacking out. She decided to try a natural approach to healing. To learn to love and nurture her body through food, which has been the most amazing success. The more she understood the more she wanted to share, to show how unbelievably creative, exciting and delicious …